April Fool’s Day has seen the usual excessively enthusiastic participation from Japan’s innumerable eroge studios, attempting rather tenuously to gull their dedicated followers into believing some rather preposterous announcements – though ultimately proving to be much more tame than previous years.

the best april fool prank for the developer would be to release on 1st april midnight,then many people will play it right away, and halfway through when u get to the H-scene, the screen black out with an April fool text.

of course, also include that there's a patch release online, next week

Japan costs are far higher than western costs. Most eroge cost 80-100 dollars, DVDs are usually 50-60 dollars with only one or two episodes.

For Japanese who aren't stupid and desperate to get the first release quickly, it's far more logical and economical to just re-import the western localizations (especially since western hentai releases are uncensored). That's the real reason Japan's cut off localizations of ero games and anime over the past decade or don't supply the Japanese audio track; they're trying to prevent Japanese from importing them instead of paying rip-off prices for the censored domestic releases.